Albert hebeble



(No Model.)

A.HEBERLE WATCH.

Patented Jan. 31,1882,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT HEBERLE, OF U EBERLINGEN, BADEN, GERMANY.

WATCH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 252,941, dated January 31, 1882. Application filed June 23, 1881. (No model.) Patented in Germany July '27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT HEBERLE, of UeberlingemGra-nd Duchy ofBadernGermany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVatches, (for which I have obtained a patentinGermany,bearingdateZTthofJuly,A.D. 1880, No. 13,251,) of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to cheapen the watch and render it more durable.

I employ a train of gearing between the spring-barrel and the escapement, which is independent of the wheels to the hands, so that large wheels and strong teeth can be used and the wheels placed near the edge of the watchplate, instead ot'one being in the center of the watch, and I use a separate connection from the spring-barrel to the hands. This enables me to dispense with one wheel and itspinion in the train, so that there remain only two wheels between the barrel and the escapeinent-wheel.

In the drawings, Figure I is a sectionacross the works, of amagnitied size, and in order that this section may convey a clear illustration of the mechanism the wheels and pinions are supposed to be arranged in a straight line in Fig.1. It follows therefrom that the winding-wheel It lies at a distance from the wheel Z, whereas in reality those two wheels engage together as Fig. 2 shows it.

In all the figures of the drawings the same letters refer to the same pieces.

Fig. 2 is a view of the upper side of the works, with a cylinder-escapement. a view of the underside of the same works. Fig. 4 represents the positions of the wheels adapted to an anchor-esca 'mnent with rack. Fig.5 shows the position otthe wheels adapted to a common auchor-escapenient. Fig. 6 illus trates the same positions of wheels for a chronometer-escapement.

Thebarrel a,pr0vided with sixty-eightteeth, engages with the six-leaved pinion b, the arbor of which carries the wheel 0. Thelatter has sev- Fig. 3 is enty-t'our teeth and engages w ith the six-leaved pinion d, the arbor of which carries the wheel 6, which haslikewise seventy-fourteeth. This wheel transmits its motion to the pinionfot' the escapement wheel, which pinion is also siX- leaved. The axis of the balance is to make one hundred and titty-two oscillations in one minute. The barrel a engages, moreover, with the twelve-leaved pinion m, which is placed in the center of the watch, and has its hollow axis traversed by the pin .2, upon which is secured thecannon-pinionr, (twelve teeth.) Upon the cannon ot' the latter is fixed the hour-wheel q, (forty teeth,) freely revolving. and engaging with thepinionp (ten teeth) of theminute-wheel 0, having thirtysix teeth. The shaft u of the crown, which is held in place by the screw V, bears the crown-wheel t, (twent3 ti eth.) en aging with the winding-wheel 7c,'(thirty-three teeth It bears, besides, the set-pinion s, which acts upon the set-wheel m (twenty-one teeth) and a (twenty-live teeth) when it is pressed against the pin ot' the set-lever.

I do not claim, in a watell-movement, the combination, with the springbarrcl, of one pinion to the wheel of the spring-barrel aml two trains of gearing receiving motion from the shaft of that pinion; but

I claim as my invention In a watclrmorement, the combination, with the barrel a, of the wheels 0 e, of the same size, and the pinions b d f, and the escam-mentwheel 9, receiving motion from such train of wheels, arranged as specified, and the pinion a and connections to the hands. that are separate from the train of gearing to the est-ape lnent, substantial'y as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence. of two snbscnbing witnesses.

ALBERT HEBERLE.

Witnesses:

ELMER SCHNEIDER, Bron. HENDEL. 

